Blog

Occasional writing about Linux, infrastructure, self-hosting, and the parts of this job that are not really about computers.

Six Years of Dotfiles

What 1,048 commits across six years taught me about managing my own configuration — and why the quiet years matter more than the busy ones.

  • ansible
  • dotfiles
  • homelab

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The Fault Follows the Port

Three years of running ZFS at home, and the recurring lesson: the filesystem kept telling the truth about my hardware long before I was willing to hear it.

  • zfs
  • storage
  • homelab
  • linux

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The Log Is the System

Running one server for a whole household. The hardware is the easy part — what keeps it alive is a written record, and a willingness to correct it.

  • homelab
  • self-hosting
  • sysadmin
  • docker

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Thirty Seconds of Nothing

My laptop kept freezing for half a minute at a time. I blamed the backup job for weeks. It was btrfs committing a transaction, and the fix was in GNOME Software.

  • btrfs
  • linux
  • fedora
  • debugging

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